A marijuana retailer will pay $95,000 to settle claims it suspended and fired an employee after she requested an accommodation for her disabilities, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Thursday.
According to the EEOC, Nature’s Herbs & Wellness failed to reasonably accommodate a budtender’s disabilities after she disclosed her disabilities to her manager and requested accommodation. When the employee complained about discrimination, the company suspended her without pay and later fired her.
The EEOC said that in internal communications regarding the employee’s termination, the owner of the company instructed human resources to “cut [the employee] loose” because she did ...
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